Credit goes to TC's @mikebutcher and @riptari for this hunt. Hitch recently pitched at TechCrunch's London summer meetup.
I'm skeptical that this will work as I've seen this matchmaking approach tried in Tinder (cc @badeen) and other dating apps. I'm not sure if it's worked for them but anecdotally I don't know anyone that has used those features. That said, curious to try it out.
@rrhoover Tinder did indeed at one point have a feature similar to this. We decided to remove it rather than maintain it. It's a nice concept, I think, but I'm not sure there are as many people trying to play matchmaker out there as one would hope. We tend to get busy with our own lives all too often.
I like the concept, but will friends take the effort to actually "hitch" their friends up and if so will those connections have the same effect as meeting at a get-together? There's something awesome with the serendipity of meeting friends of friends randomly at get-togethers.
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Friends that "hitch" friends might be responsible for more than they hoped for if relationships go down the drain :) @antongu, how do you compare yourselves to LikeBright?
Ahhh...I wanted to build this one a few years ago. I am very interested in watching this play out. I think the key is the gamification at the matchmaker-level. If it works, users wanted to find a date will be looking to the top matchmakers to help them...
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